Lu Ma was surprised: "The girl asked what the land of the eighth room is doing?" Is it true that you want to buy it? ”

There is no shortage of land in the small second house, and the family was divided into ten hectares of clan land, and the Zhang family married a hundred acres of land, plus the land she has purchased one after another over the years, adding up to 20 hectares, most of which are in Fengxian, and some are in neighboring counties. It doesn't sound like much, only 2,000 acres, but in fact, this is only the land officially recorded in the name of Xiao Erfang. The hundred hectares of fertile land given by the Marquis of Jiannan, the grain harvested every year must be converted into money and sent to the hands of the Zhang family, this part of the field is no different from the small second room, and there is no need to worry about it, the people sent by the emperor will take care of it.

The population of the small second house is small, and there is no other income except the field, and it is not completely expected to live on the production in the field. Now the Zhang family has long stopped buying land for the family, mainly because they don't have so much energy to cook. Zhao Xiu suddenly expressed that he was very interested in the land of Bafang, no wonder Lu's mother was surprised.

Zhao Xiu explained: "It's not a question of whether I have the heart to buy it, the outer eight houses are now going to sell land, and they will sell 200 acres as soon as they are sold, and they are still clan land, which can only be sold to the clansmen." But now, who in the clan can buy so much land in one go? In addition to our small second room, there are only six rooms with money. The six-house businessman, who has little demand for land, and is planning to open more branches and expand his business, may not be willing to take out the money, so isn't it just us who is left? If I don't buy it, can I really watch the uncle of the eighth room go to court because of the debt of his unfilial son? If my grandmother was at home, she would have bought it. ”

Mother Lu suddenly realized that this is indeed the truth. She sighed: "Although the eighth room is not rich. But it is also a solid family, and life has always been happy, and the eight-room master is also fair. He has a lot of prestige in the clan, but he didn't expect that when he was old, he would be affected by unfilial sons, and even the clan land would be sold. The clan is gone, what face does his family still have in the clan? ”

After sighing, she returned to the topic and answered the question raised by Zhao Xiu before: "The clan field of the eighth room is a bit far away from the clan field of our small second room. It is separated by two miles, and it is considered a middle field, which is not very fertile. Almost all of them were planted with cotton, and only six acres of land were planted with rice, all of which were cultivated by hired laborers, and they were never shared. I've heard people say that. Eight houses for sale. It was sold together with the things that were growing in the field now, and the price of five taels of silver per acre of land was also considered a cheap sale. If you don't rush to ask for money, the price is seven taels and one mu, and you can sell it. However, it has been raining for several days recently, and his family is patronizing the sick, and he has not bothered to take care of the affairs in the field and has not dug a ditch. Many places were flooded, and if the girl really wanted to take over. I'm afraid it will take a lot of effort to deal with the aftermath. ”

The aftermath is easy to do, Zhao Xiu looks at his grandmother's housekeeper every year, and he knows what to do, and even the manpower to dig the ditch is not a problem. Since the price of the eight-room land is affordable, this transaction is also done.

Zhao Xiu doesn't have any concept of taking advantage of the fire to rob in his heart, now he is waiting for the money to be used, and he takes the initiative to sell the land, no matter how low the price is, it is also set by his family, she buys it, and it can be regarded as a favor for his family, what complaints can his family have? There is no reason for others to gossip.

But she is a little girl, and it is not so simple to buy land. Two hundred acres of land, five taels of silver per mu, the total price is one thousand taels, although it is half lower than the price offered by her cousin and sister-in-law, but it is not a amount that she can take out casually. Before leaving, Zhang's instructed the account room, and she would take the pocket money below one hundred taels with her, and if it exceeded one hundred taels, she had to ask Shen what he meant, if it was more than five hundred taels, Zhao Jing, Shen and the three old ladies in the three rooms nodded together. Now that it costs a thousand taels, Zhao Xiu has to say hello to the Shen family first.

She personally went to the Zongfang, who knew that Zhao Jing and Shen were not at home, and went to the eighth room to visit the patient, so she had to chat with Sister Qing while waiting.

The matter of Bafang is the biggest news in the clan recently, and Sister Qing naturally has to talk about a few words: "I heard that the uncle in Bafang also went to the second room and asked the little aunt to buy his family's family land, isn't it?" And a high price, right? ”

Zhao Xiu nodded: "His wife said that the price of the high-grade land in Songjiang is twelve taels and one mu, and for the sake of our family, they are willing to sell it to me at a 'preferential' price of ten taels and one mu." ”

Sister Qing spat on the ground: "It's a shame that they can say it!" His family's land is only a medium field, and four taels and one mu is considered a high price, but they actually have the face to open ten taels and one acres, so it is better to grab it! She lowered her voice mysteriously: "I heard my father tell my mother that the creditor has a problem, most of them are set up to harm people, otherwise who would owe a thousand taels of gambling debts in just a few days?" ”

Zhao Xiu was surprised: "Is it gambling debt?" I only knew that he was in debt, but I didn't know that it was a gambling debt. ”

"It's gambling debts, he went to his brother-in-law's house, and met his brother-in-law gambling with a few friends, he had itchy hands for a while, and he also gambled a share, who knew that he owed thousands of taels in three days. None of his father-in-law and brother-in-law are willing to stand up for him, and even his wife is complaining about him, and now he is still staying at his mother's house and refuses to come back. ”

Zhao Xiu frowned, and his heart was very angry. What she hates the most is the word pornography, gambling and drugs. If it weren't for the fact that she had a good impression of the cousin in the eighth room, she really didn't want to meddle in this matter.

But then again, that debt is mainly really deliberately set up to blackmail the cousin's silver, which is really bold, even if the Zhao family is not as majestic as before, it still has a lot of status in Fengxian, and the government is willing to give face, if he makes such a show, isn't he afraid that he will steal chickens and rice?

Zhao Xiu was thinking about it, when he heard Sister Qing sigh again, a little sullen: "There is such a person in the eighth room, why do you still affect our sect room?" In order to raise a sum of money to lend to his family to pay off the debt, my father and mother even sold several pieces of my mother's wedding jewelry. Dad promised to send his brother out to study this autumn, but now he has lost it. ”

Zhao Jing's eldest son, Zhao Yuan, is fifteen years old this year, has passed the county examination, and has fallen in the government examination for two consecutive years, his husband Jian yì He went out to study for a year, this matter has been decided as early as last year, Zhao Xiu also heard his brother mention, Zhao Jing and Shen prepared silver for this early, I didn't expect this change.

Zhao Xiu was puzzled: "What does this mean?" Brother Jing and sister-in-law want to lend money to Bafang? ”

Sister Qing nodded: "I borrowed four hundred taels of silver." Just now my father and mother specially sent it. My father said that he was a son of the sect and could not watch his clan suffer. In the past, Uncle Tang of the eighth room once helped my father. Even if it was to repay the favor, he had to lend the money. If he really couldn't make it up, he would have wanted to borrow more. ”

Zhao Xiu couldn't figure it out, as far as she knew, although Zongfang was a rich man, most of the property was still in the hands of Zhao Jing's father, Master Yu, and Master Yu was a man who loved to take advantage. Where will you really think about your people? He doesn't even really care about the people in the inner third room, let alone the outer eighth room that he is attached to. Just seeing that Zhao Jing and his wife were going to be the Shen family's dowry for four hundred taels of silver, they knew that this decision was not supported by Zhao Yu. So why did Zhao Jing and Shen do this? Bafang has already decided to sell the land, so they can exchange the land for money, right? That's what she planned to do.

Zhao Xiu asked Sister Qing, but got an unexpected answer: "My father said that other houses can buy his land." Only our clan is not allowed. Because the land of the eight houses is sold cheaply. I really bought it, of course, I helped the eight houses, but afterwards others will inevitably talk about our sect house taking advantage of the fire to rob it. Our sect's situation is not easy now, why bother to provoke criticism again? Borrowing a sum of silver, as long as the eight houses can keep the property, it will be easy to repay the money in the future. ”

Zhao Xiu was silent when she heard this, she felt that she seemed to be thinking too simply, and the land in the eighth room was now cheap. His family was in dire need of silver, so she bought his land. It is a great favor for his family, and he also gets benefits, which is the best of both worlds. But it is not an outsider, but a clansman, who really wants to help, and there is no need to buy his family's land, and if he buys it, it is a low price, and he will never be able to get rid of the suspicion of taking advantage of the opportunity. Zongfang is in a bad situation, and it is also to show justice, but what about their small second room?

Although the small second room is not a clan house, but because of the relationship between his grandfather and grandmother, he has always occupied a unique position in the clan, not like the clan house but better than the clan room, the whole clan is prosperous because of the second room, and the heart naturally regards the second room as an authority. Grandmother Zhang has not forgotten to support her clan for many years, so she is still respected after her grandfather's death many years ago. If you only think about whether buying land is affordable, will you live up to your grandmother's painstaking efforts?

Zhao Xiu left the sect room, returned home, thought about it and thought about it, and made up his mind, took Bilian to rummage through the cabinets, and found two boxes of gold and silver bills.

These are all in the purse given by the elders during the New Year's holidays, and there are grandmothers who prepare them for her to appreciate people, the color is very good, and the fancy style is also fresh and chic. But who told her that she couldn't get the account office to open more than a hundred taels of cash? I had to use these.

She ordered twenty gold bills, twenty silver bills, and two gold collars given by others, estimated that they were worth three hundred taels of silver, so she asked people to wrap them, took Bilian, said hello to Lu's mother, and went to the eighth room.

Zhao Xiu directly sent this bag of things to the uncle in charge of the eighth room: "Grandmother is not at home, and my niece and nephew dare not use the family's money at will, this is made up casually, you can use it first." ”

Zhao Jing and Shen had just put down four hundred taels of silver and left, but they didn't expect Zhao Xiu to also send a bag of gold and silver. The eight-room master was so excited that he didn't know what to say, and his youngest son directly gave Zhao Xiu a big gift: "Thank you, sister, sister, our whole family is grateful to us!" ”

Zhao Xiu hurriedly avoided a step and said with a smile: "Cousin doesn't have to be like this, everyone is surnamed Zhao, this is a family, your family is in trouble, we should have reached out, but I was young, I didn't expect it for a while, I heard that Brother Jing sent silver, I thought of this, it was too late, I still feel ashamed in my heart." Uncle and cousin don't have to thank me, if our family encounters difficulties, you will not stand idly by. It is the duty of the clansmen to help each other. ”

After saying this, everyone in the eighth room had red eyes, and the old man of the eighth room choked up and said: "Good nephew, uncle misses your love." Don't worry, when our family passes this level, we will definitely return the money to you, and if I die, my son will pay it back! ”

With the Zongfang Zhao Jing and Zhao Xiu taking the lead, the other clansmen have successively sent some silver, except for some who are tight on hand, or reluctant, only borrowed two or three taels, and most of the other people have sent at least ten taels of silver, and even the outer six rooms have squeezed out two hundred taels of silver in order to create a good image in front of the clansmen, and the eight rooms finally scraped together enough one thousand taels, paid off the debt, and ransomed the eldest son.

The fact that this matter could be resolved peacefully and in a short time was both surprising and novel to the whole clan. Although everyone often talks about the words that clan members support each other and help each other, it is better to take care of the widows and orphans in the clan, and it is the first time that the whole clan borrows money to help repay the money when such a person owes a debt. originally thought that the sky was going to fall, but it didn't hurt its vitality, as long as it saved a few years of frugality, it would be able to pay off the debt. For a big problem for a family, it is much easier for the whole family to face it together.

The clansmen looked at Zhao Jing, the sect who took the lead in helping this time, and then looked at Zhao Xiu, who was still small, and a warmth swelled in their hearts. Everyone seems to have learned for the first time that the original clan can be such a depository. (To be continued......)

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